Executive Team

Mike Sobba

President and Chief Executive Officer
Kansas City, Missouri
877.485.8808 | msobba @ strunklp.com

Mike Sobba, President and CEO, began his banking career at the First National Bank in Topeka, Kansas after graduation from the University of Kansas in 1984. After working in the bank’s training program, he started calling on bankers in Kansas while working in the correspondent department. Mike attended ABA’s National Commercial Lending School in Norman, Oklahoma in 1986 and became manager of the correspondent division in 1988. After completing seven years of service at Bank IV (formerly FNB Topeka), he became the manager of the Correspondent Division of Commerce Bank in Kansas City in November 1991. His duties included managing a $50MM loan portfolio, selling operational services to downstream banks, and working with Capital Markets group and Investment Management area in the Midwest. He successfully completed work at the Graduate School of Banking in Madison, WI. in 1993.
Mike’s civic involvment includes being past president of Topeka Chapter of the American Institute of Banking and he has served on numerous Missouri and Kansas Bankers Association committees. Mike and his wife, Debbie, have two boys, Chris and Nick.

Mike Potter

Executive Vice President
Virginia Beach, Virginia
703.850.9560 | mpotter @ strunklp.com

Mike marks his 38th year in the financial services industry in 2008. Mike began his career working with two major banking organizations from 1970-1995, and occupied key leadership positions in commercial lending and retail banking services during those years. During this period, Mike successfully led organizational units through substantial changes in retail financial services delivery that culminated in responsibility for a half-billion dollar segment of a major east coast banking franchise.

Mike was responsible for the implementation of a wide range of culture-changing initiatives that included a variety of sales management and process improvement programs which resulted in substantial changes in organizational productivity and consultative sales capabilities.

From 1996-2002, Mike was the COO and then CEO of the customer-advantaged alliance programs for a major national banking trade association, and was responsible for creating programs and services for community bankers that created improvements for customer banks in profit enhancement, process improvement, and product/service differentiation for the member banks. Mike has worked with hundreds of community financial institutions to improve their bottom-line profitability and ability to compete in today’s intensely competitive environment. During this period, Mike had the opportunity to survey the competitive landscape of discretionary overdraft programs, including all of the companies now active, as a result of which the Overdraft Privilege Strunk & Associates was chosen as the overwhelming candidate by his bank CEO Board of Directors as the program of choice for his association’s endorsement.

Mike received his BS in Business Administration from George Mason University, and is a graduate of the Virginia School of Bank Management, the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University, and has attended banking courses at the Colgate Darden Business School at the University of Virginia.

Edgar Millan

Executive Vice President
Chicago, Illinois
773.342.2559 | emillan @ strunklp.com

Edgar Millan, Executive Vice President, is a graduate of Kansas State University school of Business Administration and Finance. As a senior credit analyst with Commerce Bank in Kansas City, Missouri, he specialized in complex financial analysis and profitability improvement. With his impressive financial background and additional Bank Operations experience, Mr. Millan brings strong Income and Expense statement analysis and Profit Improvement Measurement skills to Strunk engagements.